Vann: a virtual community against cancer
reports on a new app called Vann which aims to create a community among cancer patients as well as providing treatment tips.
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From willow bark to aspirin: The evolution of modern medicine, through the rise and fall of ancient and medieval empires
Isra El Haddad reflects on the importance of ancient discoveries to the evolution of modern medicine and treatments.
It’s not fair! A review of Oxford University Museum of Natural History’s Fair Water exhibit.
Mason Wakley reviews the new exhibit at Oxford’s Museum of Natural History and assesses how water connects all of us.
The Post COVID-19 Era
Rithika Ravishankar discusses the challenges faced and the lessons learned throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Balancing tourism and conservation in the Galapagos: local empowerment may be the key
Taylor Bi explores the conflicting priorities of tourists and residents in the Galapagos, and how local empowerment may resolve this clash.
Give it a whirl: Promoting healthy ageing through dance
Sophie Basarrate discusses the physical and cognitive benefits of dance in combatting the negative aspects of an ageing population.
Re-imagining climate justice for humans and more-than-humans
Ushika Kidd explores a discussion with Sophie Chao, an environmental anthropologist who calls for decolonisation of climate change.
Discovering the stars: The need for gender equality in space
Olivia Allen discusses the gender inequality experienced by Bell Burnell, notably how her discovery gave her male colleagues a Nobel Prize.
To capture time: Investigating timekeeping, collecting, and colonialism at Oxford’s History of Science Museum
Julia Granato explores the colonial history of many exhibitions in Britain and how a new exhibit at Oxford is trying to acknowledge its past.
Lost legacies: Western medicine’s appropriation of Indigenous psychedelic wisdom
Athina Metaxa explores how the Western psychedelic renaissance can threaten Indigenous communities and initiatives created to mitigate such.